The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-11-18
The Season of Weddings.

New York Sun.
This is the season OF weddings, as
the many marriage announcements
in our columns bear witness, thenum-
Der of brides beng even greater than
at Easter time. In the spring there is
only a brief interval between the clos
ing of Lent and the opening of May, a
month which has been eStee med UNI
lucky for weddings since the days OF
Ovid, but in the autumn the propi.
tious time is longer. In the autumn,
too, the sentimental victories of the
summer, the season most favorable
to the growth of the tender passion,
are finally celebrated and confirmed
at the altar.
1t is the fashion of the day to as
sumo a cynical tone with regard to
love and matrim ony, and a new sort
OF humor in the treatment of
these subjects has come into
vogue of late years. The newspaper
wits and college poets delight TO
make a pretense of pricking the
bubble of sentiment, that they may
show themselves to be beyond the in
fluence Of the illusions of romance;
but it is all only an effort to hide the
real susceptibility Of their hearts.
Such as they are quickest to fall VIC
Tins to the tender passion which they
pretend to scoff, and those who read
and laugh at their thin disguise or
sentiment are not less romantic than
they.
Tbe4efore love-makIng continues to
occepy the thought OF youth as much
as ever before, and the time most fa-
vorable to it is the summer and amid
the rest and opportunities OF the sea-
son of vacation. At the watering
places and at the picnics and exeur-
sions OF the great majority who must
ciitig to tine town the p~ropIHqulEy
stimulatiye Of the gentle passion is
obtained, so that wnen the leaves be-
gin TO fall there is always a rich matt
rimonial harvest. Hence it is that
the list OF marriage announcements
suddenly increases In length In Octo-
Der, which is the month Of the
year commonly most fruitful OF we'd
dings. In one week there were regis
tered 400 marriages in New York,
while ten years ago the number for
the whole of October was only TOO.
The two months yet remaining arc al
so those in which weddings are most
numerous, with the exception Of June
and October, SO that If the proper
tionate increase Of this month Is kept
up, the total for the whole quarter
will be more than twice as many rs
ten years ago, when it was about
1000. Yet, as we allknow, the popu.
lation OF the town has increased since
that time by only one.half.
This increase In the number Of mar.
riages proves that, despite the cynics.
matrimony il now more popular than
ever, and IT shows, too, that there is
prosperity among the PEOPLE. Young
men and young women who have been
keeping company now find themselves
able to start homes oftheir own, and
they hasten TO take advantage OF the
propitious time to join their fortunes
IN wedlock. They bAvalooked oil the
SINGLE state as . temporary condition
merely, from whose wretchedness only
adverse circumstances could prevent
their escaping, so that rs soon az
they begin to feel at all secure OF
steady employment ct sufficient
wages they lose no time IN calling up.
on the paTson to tie the knot. Bache.
lofhood, az q permanent state, has
no attractions, only for those miser
able men who have become so far per.
verified, that they perfer selfish ia.
diligence TO the joys Of matrimonv;
but, happily such creatures are few ii
comparison with the multitude with
whom the winning OF e wife ii the
most cherished object Of ambition.
Therefore, with general prosperity.
the wedding bells are ringing as never
before d this happy conlmnnitv.